Explaining Variations in Responses to Security Threats in the Sahel

• In Event: The Politics of Security and State Capacity in Africa

Brief Overview

Wars make states, they say. Yet, Burkina, Mali and Niger have been on the receiving ends of wars of aggression and have very different state responses to show for it. This paper looks at the influence of their respective state-building trajectories

Authors

• Pierre Englebert, Pomona College

• Jessica Piombo, Naval Postgtaduate SChool